Stack file format change in 2.7 - BACK UP!

David Burgun dburgun at dsl.pipex.com
Fri Apr 21 07:33:27 EDT 2006


I hope so! That's great!

All the Best
Dave

On 20 Apr 2006, at 14:36, Geoff Canyon wrote:

> I think saving in the pre-2.7 format is available in the upcoming  
> release.
>
> gc
>
> On Apr 20, 2006, at 2:41 AM, David Burgun wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I really can't understand all the mystery surrounding this "fix"  
>> to allow backwards compatibility. As far as I understand it, there  
>> is a way to tell the engine to save in the old format or the new  
>> format, with version 2.7 defaulting to the newer format. That all  
>> sounds reasonable. What I can't understand is why how to do it is  
>> a "secret"? There is a protected IDE plug-in available that allows  
>> you to save in either format, but since it is protected, the  
>> details are hidden. There is no real mention of it on the RunRev  
>> Web Site or in the Documentation as far as I can see. Leaving this  
>> "hanging" like this is just bound to lead to problems IMO.  
>> Problems that could be so easily avoided just by either shipping  
>> the PlugIn with the release, or having an IDE command or  
>> preference to select it or by just documenting exactly how to do it.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas on this mystery?????
>>
>> All the Best
>> Dave
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